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己 — self; oneself

Pinyin
jǐ
Strokes
3
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 己: 3 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

己 — 3 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 己 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 自己zìjǐoneself; one's ownHSK 2
  2. 各抒己见gèshū-jǐjiàneveryone gives their own viewHSK 7–9
  3. 身不由己shēnbùyóujǐbeyond one's control; unable to do anything about it; not subject to conscious controlHSK 7–9
  4. 损人利己sǔnrén-lìjǐharming others for one's personal benefit; personal gain to the detriment of othersHSK 7–9
  5. 知己zhījǐto know oneself; to be intimate or closeHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.